Last week I wrote that link routing is the feature OSes and browsers pretend isn't there, and closed by saying this AI era could bring a cross-platform router, and that I'd be the number one promoter. The cross-platform piece didn't ship yet, but the Linux piece did. Today I'm launching McLovin . Just like in Superbad , McLovin gets along with the Operating System (Officer Slater) and the browsers (Officer Michaels). Friends with both, he steers each link to the right place. Main menu of the GUI Why does McLovin exist? On Mac I used Finicky . I switched to Linux with Omarchy almost a year ago and went looking for an equivalent. Junction only asks every time, mimi doesn't carry routing rules. The remaining path was "build your own", and I did. It worked well, with a TUI that paired nicely with Omarchy. Then I thought: this should be a built-in feature on every OS, the same way each OS has a rule for which app opens PDFs.…